Improvement in tailors  measures



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TAILORS MEASURES. No. 185,412.. Patented Dec.19, 1876.

TMC GRAPHIC CDJLY UNITED STTEs PATENT WILLIAM VENNER, OF HAMBURG, NEWYORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF BIS RIGHT TO WILLIAM ELLWOOD, OF SAMEPLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TAILORS MEASURES.

speoication forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,412, dated December19, 1876; application led october 23, 1876,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM VENNER, ofHamburg, in the county of Erie and State of New York, assigner ofone-halt to WILLIAM ELLWOOD, of Hamburg, Erie county, New

i York, have made certain Improvements iu Tailors Measures, of which thefollowing is a specication This invention is for the purpose of takingthe actual measure of persons to get accurate measurements for coats andvests; and the invention consists in combining, with a rightangledwooden, or metal, measure, a slotted raised slide, in which runs amovable head attached to a tape-measure, as hereinafter explained.

The drawing shows an elevation of the dev1ce.

A represents a vertical, straight, flat, wooden piece, having a metal(or wooden) arm, B, attached at right angles thereto, which is for thepurpose of setting under the arm of the person to be measured, the partA setting close to the shoulder. Attached at both ends on one side ofthis straight piece A is a metal piece, C, having a slot, a, runningnearly its entire length. This metal piece bulges out i a little, sothat it fits to the shape of the gure (ofthe customer) and the woodenverthe hip. In the slot a is pivoted a sliding head, b, to which isattached the usual tapemeasure D. This, by having a firm basis at b, iscarried around the body, shoulder, or waist of the customer, and auactual measure obtained, which is not the case where a tapemeasure isonly used, as is the present custom.

The slot and slide allows its use on diierent lengths of bodies to bemeasured, and is very important and useful for that purpose, as thepoint of starting the measurement can be made higher or lower and a firmbasis for a measurement had, as before explained.

vI claim- A tailors measure in which is combined the straight piece A,the arm B, the curved metallic piece G, attached at each end to thepiece A, and having the elongated slot a, and the head b arranged toslide in said slot, and provided with a tape-measure, as and for theobjectset forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM VENNER.

